Mobile networking software maker MobileWare Corp, Dallas, Texas, will integrate its remote wireless access software with Informix Software Inc’s relational database, and will offer the integrated product on the OEM market. This will enable Informix users to access vertical client-server applications remotely connect with the database, according to a MobileWare spokeswoman. MobileWare version 2.5 software enables mobile workers to access Informix via local network-based applications through a wireless communication connection. Informix Corp, Menlo Park, California, will license MobileWare client software for integration with its database products, and will make an undisclosed equity investment in MobileWare. MobileWare software will be integrated into Informix application development environment as a mobile tool kit for application developers, system integrators, resellers and data processing departments. Informix said it will ship the first release of its mobile product incorporating the MobileWare technology in the first half of 1996. MobileWare’s agent technology is extensible and enables OEM partners to add an agent to its Windows NT-based server so that users can access Unix and other operating systems. MobileWare plans to upgrade its 2.5 software release to 3.0 in early December, according to a spokeswoman. Support will be added for a Windows95 client and Microsoft Mail. Priced separately, MobileWare 2.5 costs $1,000 for a server and five users until the end of the year, and then rises to $1,400.
